75 years ago
May 29, 1943
Word has been received by Gay Baldwin of Riverdale, that her son, Robert, previously reported captured by the Japanese at the fall of Corregidor, died in a Japanese prison camp in the Philippine Islands, May 21. Prior to his enlistment in the army he had worked at a mill in Raymond.
• President of the Girls Athletic Association, expert swimmer, excellent basketball player, active in all girls’ sports. These are just a few of the things which make Joy Boettcher, a junior this year, one of the outstanding girl athletes at Weatherwax high school.
Inspired by the outstanding record of her two brothers, Al and Harold, joy has set her own pace.
Awarded a two-stripe sweater, Joy accumulated 1,560 of the 1,800 points necessary for a three-strip sweater which is awarded in the senior year.
In the past two years, she has turned out for volleyball, basketball, baseball, girls swimming, water show and the tumbling team and minor sports such as ping pong, archery, skating and hiking.
May 30, 1943
Sunday, no newspaper published
50 years ago
May 29, 1968
More than 100 Quinault area residents gathered at the community hall last night to sock it to the U.S. Forest Service, which owns the land on which the hall is located. The Lake Quinault Community Association owns and maintains the hall as a community center.
The forest service thinks the 40-year-old structure may be ready for the wrecker’s ball. But the residents feel that the forest service is just on an aesthetic witch hunt and wants to tear down the hall because it looks just exactly like what it is — an old gymnasium with cracked, fading paint and leaky plumbing.
To the people of the Quinault area, the hall is many things. It is a dance hall, a YMCA, a skating rink and a Boy Scout meeting place. and during the summer the teen-agers gather for well-chaperoned rock-and-rolling.
May 30, 1968
After three years of working and waiting, electrical power has come to Queets and its neighbors.
The first cables were laid to this tiny Jefferson County Indian community yesterday afternoon and it will be about another month before installations are made as far as Kalaloch including the Kalaloch Lodge, the Ranger Station and Morrison Logging Co. in Clearwater.
25 years ago
May 29, 1993
Jon Hudson, 28, has been hired as the Aberdeen Police Department’s newest officer.
Hudson, who is moving from Seattle, will be attending the State Basic Law Enforcement Academy from July through September. Until then he will ride with a field training officer, according to Capt. Nel Sundstrom.
• A Montesano sophomore renovated and expanded the nature trail at Lions Club Park in Central Park to earn his Eagle Scout award.
Kristopher Stamon, 15, is a member of Troop 7 and has been a scout since 1988. He has earned 41 segments and 21 merit badges and currently holds the troop office of assistant senior patrol.
May 30, 1993
Aberdeen residents Jennifer Leanne Malik and Wayne Hagen Jr. are engaged and planning a summer wedding.
The bride-elect, daughter of former Aberderdonians Dr. Joseph and Carole Malik of Mill Creek, is a 1984 graduate of Aberdeen High School. She also graduated from Washington State University and is human resources administrator for Ocean Spray Inc. at Markham.
The intended bridegroom, the son of former Aberdeen residents Wayne and Raeburn Hagen of Belfair, graduated from Aberdeen High School in 1880. He also is a graduate of the University of Washington and the University of Oregon Law School. He is employed as an attorney.
Compiled from the archives of The Daily World by Karen Barkstrom
